Worm holes in your brane-world might not be that bad

Apparently blackholes aren't the be-all and more importantly the end-all -- there are also higher-dimensional black holes.

With that being said, that means that not only do wormholes exist in ordinary dimensions but higher-dimensional wormholes must also exist. And these wormholes may give birth to another universe.

That is of course if you follow the brane-world ethos (for a better understanding of brane-world check out this paper from Roy Maartens).

You may well now be proclaiming: "Hey hedgehog, get on with it", so I will.

Enrico Rodrigo from the Department of General Studies at Charles Drew University in LA has just released his paper titled Denouement of a wormhole-brane encounter which discusses this at length.

"When such a wormhole, preexisting in the bulk, impinges upon our universe, taken to be a positive-tension 3-brane, it can induce the creation in our universe of a wormhole of ordinary dimensionality," he states.

"The throat of this wormhole might fully constrict, pinch off, and thus birth a baby universe. Alternatively, the induced wormhole might persist. I show that persistence is more likely
and note that the persistent wormhole manifests as a particle-like object whose interaction
with cosmic matter is purely gravitational."

Intrigued? Well you should be. Check out his paper here at arXiv.org

Never say that hedgehogs don't provide anything to the world apart from small amounts of poop and the occasional cute fictional character in a kids book who wears an apron.